The nation's elders fumed, fretted, legislated and pontificated last week over the socking syncopations of "rock 'n' roll" (TIME, June 18). Items:
¶ After a riot in Asbury Park, N.J.'s Convention Hall that sent 25 vibrating teen-agers to the hospital, Mayor Roland J. Hines slapped a rock-'n'-roll ban on all city dance halls. Taking the hint, Jersey City canceled Jazzman Paul Whiteman's "Rock 'n' Roll Under the Stars" show at the 24,000-seat Roosevelt Stadium. Cried anguished Sponsor Ed Otto: "We were executed by remote control."
¶ Bandsman Bill (Rock Around the Clock) Haley, whose Comets were among the groups shut out by...
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